Jack Shenker
Arabian audio
How do you hear new music in the Middle East? Two entrepreneurs are launching Dandin, an English-language platform to promote regional talent, from protest songs to perfect pop. It’s an online revolution.
Future makers
Meet the entrepreneurs building a future for Egypt post-Mubarak. Each is attempting to turn crisis into opportunity and help spark a much-needed national economic recovery.
Expo 42: Trading places
Following Mubarak's fall, Egypt's future success relies on harnessing the Suez Canal's potential. But the nation faces growing competition from new superpowers, trade routes and the ever-present threat of piracy.
Still fighting
The former director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency has refused to sink quietly into retirement and is battling to bring democracy to his home country of Egypt.
Environment Forecast
Chinese eco-cities, what the Pharoahs can teach us about climate change, and the battle between business and environmentalists over vast oil reserves in Canada.
Urbanism Forecast
Cairo's new satellite cities, the migration from Mumbai to Bandra, and Asia's frantic competition to build the world's tallest skyscrapers.
Moving mountains
Sandwiched between two economic giants, Nepal is betting on hydropower, tourism and a new entrepreneurial spirit to shake off war, poverty and isolation — and reclaim its historic prosperity.
El Korba, Heliopolis
Amid Cairo's glorious chaos, this Heliopolis suburb offers elegant arcades, bookshops and flower stalls — proof that the Egyptian capital's charms reward those who look closer.
